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John Bettis's Crazy For You

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The song “Crazy for You,” written by John Bettis and performed by Madonna, is the perfect song for Romeo and Juliet’s first encounter in Act I, scene V. The song’s upbeat rhythm along with the lyrics follows Romeo’s perspective of seeing Juliet. With everyone in the room dancing to the music, Romeo makes his way to Juliet, like Madonna predicts “Strangers making the most of the dark” (Bettis, 2). They find each other in the swaying crowd by Romeo sweeping Juliet away and professing, “If I profane with my unworthiest hand / this holy shrine, the gentle sin is this,” in which Juliet responds with “Good Pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much” (Shakespeare I, v, 93-94, 97). Juliet’s intellect was able to pick up the metaphor of the religious

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